“I am not a Negro. I am not a white man. I am a man.”

Rejecting racial categories in favour of a wider human identity · Letter / personal statement, as commonly attributed

• Identity
• Truth

“Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

Advocating action and embodiment over mere contemplation · Aphorisms / writings

• Action
• Being
• Contemplation

“I am of no particular race. I am of the human race, a man at large in the human world, preparing a new race.”

Rejecting fixed racial categories for a broader human identity · Essentials (1931)

• Humanity
• Identity
• Race